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posted by martyb on Monday March 30 2015, @06:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the first-you-create-a-commISSion dept.

Discovery Magazine reports that in a landmark decision Russia has announced initial plans to build a new orbital space station together with NASA to replace the International Space Station (ISS), which is set to operate until 2024.

Igor Komarov, the head of Russia's Roscosmos space agency, made the announcement flanked by NASA administrator Charles Bolden at Russia's Baikonur launchpad in Kazakhstan. "Roscosmos together with NASA will work on the programme of a future orbital station," said Komarov. "We agreed that the group of countries taking part in the ISS project will work on the future project of a new orbital station." Russia had said earlier this year it planned to create its own space station after 2024 using its modules from the ISS after it is mothballed. The two agencies will be unifying their standards and systems of manned space programs, according to Komarov. “This is very important to future missions and stations.”

The next goal for the two agencies is a joint mission to Mars said NASA chief Charles Bolden. “Our area of cooperation will be Mars. We are discussing how best to use the resources, the finance, we are setting time frames and distributing efforts in order to avoid duplication.”

 
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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday March 30 2015, @06:31AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 30 2015, @06:31AM (#164088) Journal
    "If we let NASA doing it without us, they might actually do it and leave us with no lever left for blackmailing [universetoday.com]"
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  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Monday March 30 2015, @08:02AM

    by isostatic (365) on Monday March 30 2015, @08:02AM (#164102) Journal

    Strong words front country that can't out a man in space

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2015, @02:41PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2015, @02:41PM (#164261)

      Well, since we don't have that Putin unhealthy obsession with homosexuality, we don't feel we need to out any of our astronauts.

      • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday March 30 2015, @03:59PM

        by bob_super (1357) on Monday March 30 2015, @03:59PM (#164321)

        On the other hand, if you're ever going to out someone, space is probably the best place to do it...

        "our leading man was so gay,
        he nearly flew away.
        Where did we go right?"

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2015, @04:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2015, @04:47PM (#164351)

    Translation of the NASA answer: "Russia is the new devil according to the policy of the day. We can't paint our politicians bad by cooperating!"